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Nature 391, 621 (12 February 1998) | doi:10.1038/35452
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Curtain falls on gene sequencing deal
Declan Butler
SmithKline Beecham, which reached a $125-million agreement in 1993 with the gene sequencing company Human Genome Sciences (HGS), has suspended its use of that company's gene sequence database. The pharmaceutical company claims it has already exhaustively milked the database, and that other high-quality sequence data are increasingly available in the public domain.
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